ten thousand stars

Chloe ✦ ✦ USA

[babbyygirrrl]

working on myself because it wasn't my fault but it is my responsibility to get better and take care of me now.

[achillesinhighheels]

[achillesinhighheels]

[kosmogrl]

[starrover]

“Well, I have said this in the past, so I hope i don’t bore you by repeating it, but I think that we live or die under the tyranny of perfection. Socially, we are pushed towards being perfect. Physically, beautiful to conform to standards that are cruel and uncommon, to behave and lead our lives in a certain way, to demonstrate to the world that we are happy and healthy and all full of sunshine. We are told to always smile and never sweat, by multiple commercials of shampoo or beer. And I feel that the most achievable goal of our lives is to have the freedom that imperfection gives us. And there is no better patron saint of imperfection than a monster. We will try really hard to be angels, but I think that a balanced, sane life is to accept the monstrosity in ourselves and others as part of what being human is. Imperfection, the acceptance of imperfection, leads to tolerance and liberates us from social models that I find horrible and oppressive.”

— Guillermo del Toro, on why he has always been intrigued by monsters [x] (via radiophile)

[luulapants]

In 4th grade, my bff was in a death feud over chess with a boy in our class but instead of competing like normal people they decided that the best way to determine who was chess master was for each of them to select one of the two biggest idiots in class and teach them to play chess, My Fair Lady style, and see whose idiot won. We are just now, 22 years later, grappling with the moral implications of this exercise.

[paintingispoetry]

John Everett Millais, "The Bridesmaid", 1851

[artspotting]

Eva Kotatkova, Home Detention via VVORK

[platinumrest]

Jewellery by me for Lucila Safdie

[podencos]

Hahaha Philip Glass is such a baller

[cyberglittter]

evdokia labropoulou by saskia kovandzich

[st-pam]

[ofthe1nterior]

Elena Ferrante, “Writing That Urges,” Incidental Inventions

[satyriconmp3]

utilising the gift of imagination to hallucinate moments of tenderness between fictional people

[historium]

Zitkala-Sa, first Native American woman to write an opera 1898

[lifeinpoetry]

             I strut the street with this fat body. Swaying my hips,              I strut the street and swirl. Fat body greets the heat on summer days.

— Stephanie Rogers, from “Fat Girl Rondelet,” Fat Girl Forms

[heavensghost]

Lately I don’t let other peoples opinions bother me too much and I think a lot about that quote byJenny Slate that goes ‘As the image of myself becomes sharper in my brain and more precious, I feel less afraid someone else will erase me by denying me love’